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Security News for the Week Ending December 8, 2023

US Warns That Iran Terrorists Broke into Multiple US Water Facilities Last week I reported that the Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Water Authority fessed up to the fact that hackers successfully broke into their network, compromising a pump station, using a vulnerability in an Israeli OT network system that is repackaged by multiple vendors. Now the FBI, […]

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Feds Propose New Security Regs for Hospitals to Get Medicare/Medicaid $

Health and Human Services (HHS) says it is planning to take a range of actions to reduce cyberattacks on hospitals which have gone a bit crazy in the last few years. They released the proposal yesterday. The plan is to tie the new cybersecurity requirements through the Medicare and Medicaid programs, tying payments to baseline […]

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May 7th, 2025 – Let the Chaos Begin

Real ID, a misguided effort by the feds to make everyone have a less easily fakeable driver’s license (notice I did not say a secure driver’s license) came out of the 9-11 attacks. For the last 20 years the feds have been trying to get the states to implement the law, with many states resisting […]

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AI Models Cracked Open by Security Researchers

No big surprise here. Researchers have gotten full read and write access to Meta’s Bloom, Meta-Llama and Pythia large language models in a typical example of supply chain risk. If they had been hackers or a non-friendly nation, they could have poisoned the training data, stolen the models and datasets and other unfriendly things. AI […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 1, 2023

Montana and Indiana TikTok Ban Stunts Unsurprisingly Fail in Court Both Indiana and Montana passed laws completely banning TikTok – both at the app store and private citizen level. Given that these laws were political stunts designed to try and impress voters, it is not surprising that they failed in court. The courts struck down […]

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